River Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, Fishermen and Other Figures near the Walls of a Town

River Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, Fishermen and Other Figures near the Walls of a Town

RP-T-1897-A-3399

Vissers in het water van een stadsgracht; op de voorgrond loopt een vrouw die een mand op haar hoofd draagt, op de rug gezien.

date: ‘omtrent A.o 1620’

draftsman (artist): Hendrick Avercamp

before c. 1620

watercolour, point of brush and pen in brown ink, with opaque white, over traces of graphite or black chalk; framing line in brown ink

height 130 mm x width 186 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1897

Public domain

…; sale, Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869, Rotterdam), Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme), 23 October 1871 sqq., no. 11 (‘_Pêcheur an bord d'une rivière. A l'aquarelle_’), fl. 14, to J.F. Ellinckhuysen (1814-97), Rotterdam;{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller et al.), 19 November 1878 sqq., no. 8 (‘_Paysage, animé de pécheurs. Au lointain la ville de Kampen. A l’aquarelle. - H. 14.5, L. 19._ […]’), fl. 62, to Georg Carl Valentin Schöffer (1841-1915, Amsterdam and Scheveningen);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 30 May 1893 sqq., no. 6 (‘_Rempart de ville, avec des pêcheurs. Aquarelle. - Hauteur 13, largeur 18.5 cent._’), fl. 31, to Wiliam Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94,) Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 17 (‘_Rempart de ville (Kampen) et paysage animé de pêcheurs et de paysans. Belle qualité, provenant des cabinets Vis Blokhuyzen, Ellinckhuyzen et Schöffer. Aquarelle. - H. 13, 1. 19 cent._’), fl. 20, to the dealer F. Muller, Amsterdam, for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD.} from whom acquired by the museum (L. 2228), 1897

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